Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean Baptiste Colbert was the financial minister of king Louis XIV. Colbert helped the king in achieving his goals to help France attain economic, political, and cultural brilliance. He pushed mercantilism on France. Colbert believed in the theory of mercantilism. Mercantilism is an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought. There are nine characteristic that characterize this way of thinking. The characteristics are bullionism, achieving economic self-sufficiency, encouragement of thriving agriculture, sea power, establishing colonies, trade, large population, avoiding luxury items, and state regulates and enforces all the economic policies. Bullionism is the economic health of a nation measured by the amount of gold and silver which it possessed. Bullionism dictated a “favorable balance of trade”. It dictated by placing high tariffs on imported raw materials than exported so that there would be more exports than imports. Achieving economic self-sufficiency promises new industries that they will be rewarded by the state. In addition, thriving agriculture lessen the need to import food and enables prosperous farmers to provide a base of taxation. Sea power helps avoid the need of using the ships of other nations to carry your trade goods own fleet adds to the power and prestige of the nation. Besides this, the colonies could provide captive markets…

for many year and it have only brought modest territory expansion. Another similarity between both absolutism is the building of their capital and palace, like many ruler in the past Louis XIV and Peter the Great ave possess a architecture that display their power and wealth. Louis XIV of France had the capital Versailles and Peter the Great build the beautiful city St.Petersburg. The different policy between the two absolutism is the changes they try to applied to their nation, France try to…

and especially a woman, Sacagawea, and her baby, Jean Baptiste. About Sacagawea Childhood Sacagawea was born into the Lemhi Shoshone tribe in today’s southeastern Idaho area in 1788 or 1789 according to History.com. She was the daughter of the Chief. She was educated about local plants, berries, and roots. The…

proven until just recently, though the actual development of it ranges back before the 19th century. Before the theory was introduced, Carolus Linnaeus had started a new system for naming specific species- a two name system that further categorizes them based on characteristics; developed in 1735. Then in 1795, James Hutton proposed the concept that the Earth gradually changed over time; a result from changes in climate and ecosystems. Natural Selection plays a large role in the theory of…

Theory. Alfred Wallace was developing a theory that was just as similar to that of Charles Darwin. Variations are the key concepts that are studied in both of Wallace’s and Darwin’s. The reason this is done is, because variations help to identify why the species evolve. Wallace’s theory does differ from Darwin 's. Wallace’s theory shows that a species will only take on an adaptation if it will be beneficial to the species survival. Now, for the evolutional theory the adaptation is not just a…

Lamarck’s recognition of the dynamic nature of life in the past made an important contribution to the development of evolutionary theory” (Larson 30). Besides, there is another evidence in the textbook, “Chevalier de Lamarck, speculated that plants and animals not only change in form over time but do so for purposes of self-improvement” (Larson 29). In my opinion, even though Lamarck’s theory was incorrect about some details, he was one of the first scientists to come up with a theory that life…

The Founding of A City Undeniably rooted in each human soul is the deep seated desire to leave the indelible mark of one 's self behind. But an entire city? Now that really is exceptional! When Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable set out on his journey, I 'm sure he had no idea that would be, ultimately, where his travels would end. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable was born, at best estimates, sometime between 1745 and 1750 in the small port town of the then French colony of Saint -…

students have to take that they might not be interested in, so they are not looking to be to enjoy the class. The student is most likely seeking to get an A in the course so they don’t have to repeat the class. On the other hand, some students that go in to the class, might come out of the class with a new found interest. Being comfortable with failure is okay to an extent, not being comfortable where a student gets used to and expects to fail every time. The main point is people are not perfect…

focus on how media coverage differed on different assets, rather than just a hindrance where they focused on the surface details of Lochte’s story. To examine differences in media coverage, we chose to utilize many different news clips: the initial Today show report of Lochte’s first story, the Today show response to Lochte’s retraction, Lochte’s significant interview with Matt Lauer, and the Colbert show segment paradying that interview. This presented a challenge for us, in terms of how we…

It all began in the year 1999, the beginning of a new outlet for information began, With the use of satirical techniques many new news show had begun to shake the standards the news had previously had. Starting with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to continue to The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert and even websites like the onion all having a unique and ever evolving standards of their own. These news television programs unifying news and comedy into something new shocked people. Some of the…